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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌæsəˈfɛtɪdə/ Forms: asafoetidas [plural]
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin asafoetida, from Persian ازا / آزا (azâ, âzâ, “mastic”) + Latin foetida, feminine of foetidus (“bad-smelling”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|-}} Middle English, {{der|en|ML.|asafoetida}} Medieval Latin asafoetida, {{der|en|fa|ازا|ازا / آزا|t=mastic|tr=azâ, âzâ}} Persian ازا / آزا (azâ, âzâ, “mastic”), {{der|en|la|foetida}} Latin foetida, {{m|la|foetidus|t=bad-smelling}} foetidus (“bad-smelling”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} asafoetida (usually uncountable, plural asafoetidas)
  1. A resinous gum from the stem and roots of Ferula species such as Ferula foetida and Ferula assa-foetida, having a strong, unpleasant smell, with culinary and medical uses. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Foods, Gums and resins, Spices and herbs Categories (lifeform): Scandiceae tribe plants Synonyms: asant, hing, devil's dung, stinking gum, asafetida, asfetida, assafetida, assa-fetida [dated], assafoetida, assa-fœtida Translations (resinous gum from wild fennel): حِلْتِيت (ḥiltīt) [masculine] (Arabic), քաղբան (kʻaġban) (Armenian), անգուժատ (angužat) (Armenian), ᬳᬶᬂᬕᬸ (hinggu) (Balinese), ရှိန်းခို (hrin:hkui) (Burmese), duivelsdrek (Dutch), düvelsdreck (Dutch Low Saxon), hajupihka (Finnish), pirunpihka (Finnish), ase fétide [feminine] (French), Asant [masculine] (German), Teufelsdreck [masculine] (German), હિંગ (hiṅg) [feminine] (Gujarati), हींग (hīṅg) [feminine] (Hindi), हीँग (hī̃g) [feminine] (Hindi), हिंग (hiṅg) [feminine] (Hindi), bűzös husáng (Hungarian), bűzös aszat (Hungarian), djöflatað (Icelandic), assafetida [feminine] (Italian), hkying hku (Jingpho), ಇಂಗು (iṅgu) (Kannada), кеурексасыр (keureksasyr) (Kazakh), ມະຫາຫິງ (ma hā hing) (Lao), düwelsdreck [German-Low-German, masculine] (Low German), കായം (kāyaṁ) (Malayalam), हिंग (hiṅga) (Marathi), անգուժատ (angužat) (Middle Armenian), մաղթ (maġtʻ) (Middle Armenian), ၚု (ŋùˀ) (Mon), हिङ (hiṅ) (Nepali), dyvelsdrek [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), حلتیت (hiltit) (Ottoman Turkish), انجه (anja) [feminine] (Pashto), انگدان (angodân) (Persian), انگژد (angožad) (Persian), رافه (râfe) (Persian), هنگ (hing) [Dari] (Persian), asafetyda [feminine] (Polish), czarcie łajno [neuter] (Polish), smrodzieniec [masculine] (Polish), assafétida [feminine] (Portuguese), asafëtida [feminine] (Romagnol), हिङ्गु (hiṅgu) [masculine] (Sanskrit), သိင်းၶူဝ်ႇ (síng khò) (Shan), asafétida [feminine] (Spanish), dyvelsträck [common-gender] (Swedish), inggo (Tagalog), asapetida (Tagalog), ров (rov) (Tajik), பெருங்காயம் (peruṅkāyam) (Tamil), ఇంగువ (iṅguva) (Telugu), มหาหิงคุ์ (Thai), ཤིང་ཀུན (english: shing kun) (Tibetan), aṅkwaṣ (Tocharian B), şeytantersi (Turkish), hiltit (Turkish), ہینگ (hīṅg) [feminine] (Urdu)

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          "ref": "1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section II",
          "text": "Nigh Whormoot are Duzgun, Laztan-De, and other Townes, where is got the best Assa-Fætida through all the Orient: the tree is like our brier in height, the leaves resemble Fig leaves, the root the Radish: the vertue had need be much, it stincks so odiously.",
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          "ref": "1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183",
          "text": "CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.",
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          "roman": "hinggu",
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          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
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          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
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          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
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          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
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          "tags": [
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          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "hī̃g",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "हीँग"
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          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "hiṅg",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "हिंग"
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        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "bűzös husáng"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "bűzös aszat"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "djöflatað"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "assafetida"
        },
        {
          "code": "kac",
          "lang": "Jingpho",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "hkying hku"
        },
        {
          "code": "kn",
          "lang": "Kannada",
          "roman": "iṅgu",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "ಇಂಗು"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "keureksasyr",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "кеурексасыр"
        },
        {
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "ma hā hing",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "ມະຫາຫິງ"
        },
        {
          "code": "nds-nl",
          "lang": "Dutch Low Saxon",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "düvelsdreck"
        },
        {
          "code": "nds-de",
          "lang": "Low German",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
            "German-Low-German",
            "masculine"
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          "word": "düwelsdreck"
        },
        {
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "kāyaṁ",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "കായം"
        },
        {
          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
          "roman": "hiṅga",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "हिंग"
        },
        {
          "code": "mnw",
          "lang": "Mon",
          "roman": "ŋùˀ",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "ၚု"
        },
        {
          "code": "ne",
          "lang": "Nepali",
          "roman": "hiṅ",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "हिङ"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dyvelsdrek"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "hiltit",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "حلتیت"
        },
        {
          "code": "ps",
          "lang": "Pashto",
          "roman": "anja",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "انجه"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "angodân",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "انگدان"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "angožad",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "انگژد"
        },
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          "roman": "râfe",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "رافه"
        },
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "hing",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "هنگ"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "asafetyda"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "czarcie łajno"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "smrodzieniec"
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "assafétida"
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          "code": "rgn",
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          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
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          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
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          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
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          "word": "dyvelsträck"
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        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "inggo"
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        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "asapetida"
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          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "rov",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "ров"
        },
        {
          "code": "ta",
          "lang": "Tamil",
          "roman": "peruṅkāyam",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "பெருங்காயம்"
        },
        {
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "iṅguva",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "ఇంగువ"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "มหาหิงคุ์"
        },
        {
          "code": "bo",
          "english": "shing kun",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "ཤིང་ཀུན"
        },
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          "lang": "Tocharian B",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "aṅkwaṣ"
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        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "şeytantersi"
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        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "word": "hiltit"
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        {
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "hīṅg",
          "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ہینگ"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˌæsəˈfɛtɪdə/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "asafoetida"
}
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    },
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        "1": "en",
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        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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        "Requests for gender in Marathi entries",
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          "ref": "1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section II",
          "text": "Nigh Whormoot are Duzgun, Laztan-De, and other Townes, where is got the best Assa-Fætida through all the Orient: the tree is like our brier in height, the leaves resemble Fig leaves, the root the Radish: the vertue had need be much, it stincks so odiously.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183",
          "text": "CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 54",
          "text": "half-a-dozen huge bread pills, dipped in a solution of aloes or cinnamon water, flavoured with assafœtida, which in the case of the dyspeptic rich often suffice [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155",
          "text": "For black magic, assafœtida, garlic, dragon's blood, sulphur, and such-like vile-smelling concoctions were used.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford",
          "text": "The letter she sent me stank of assafoetida or devil’s dung. I was charmed.",
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        }
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          "word": "asant"
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        {
          "word": "hing"
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        {
          "word": "devil's dung"
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        {
          "word": "stinking gum"
        }
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      "word": "asafetida"
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      "word": "asfetida"
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      "word": "assafetida"
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      "tags": [
        "dated"
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    }
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḥiltīt",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "حِلْتِيت"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kʻaġban",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "քաղբան"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "angužat",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "անգուժատ"
    },
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      "code": "axm",
      "lang": "Middle Armenian",
      "roman": "angužat",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "անգուժատ"
    },
    {
      "code": "axm",
      "lang": "Middle Armenian",
      "roman": "maġtʻ",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "մաղթ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ban",
      "lang": "Balinese",
      "roman": "hinggu",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "ᬳᬶᬂᬕᬸ"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "hrin:hkui",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "ရှိန်းခို"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "duivelsdrek"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "hajupihka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "pirunpihka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ase fétide"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Asant"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Teufelsdreck"
    },
    {
      "code": "gu",
      "lang": "Gujarati",
      "roman": "hiṅg",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "હિંગ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "hīṅg",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "हींग"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "hī̃g",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "हीँग"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "hiṅg",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "हिंग"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "bűzös husáng"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "bűzös aszat"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "djöflatað"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "assafetida"
    },
    {
      "code": "kac",
      "lang": "Jingpho",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "hkying hku"
    },
    {
      "code": "kn",
      "lang": "Kannada",
      "roman": "iṅgu",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "ಇಂಗು"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "keureksasyr",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "кеурексасыр"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "ma hā hing",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "ມະຫາຫິງ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nds-nl",
      "lang": "Dutch Low Saxon",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "düvelsdreck"
    },
    {
      "code": "nds-de",
      "lang": "Low German",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "German-Low-German",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "düwelsdreck"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "kāyaṁ",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "കായം"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "hiṅga",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "हिंग"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnw",
      "lang": "Mon",
      "roman": "ŋùˀ",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "ၚု"
    },
    {
      "code": "ne",
      "lang": "Nepali",
      "roman": "hiṅ",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "हिङ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dyvelsdrek"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "hiltit",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "حلتیت"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "roman": "anja",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "انجه"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "angodân",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "انگدان"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "angožad",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "انگژد"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "râfe",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "رافه"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "hing",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "Dari"
      ],
      "word": "هنگ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asafetyda"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "czarcie łajno"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "smrodzieniec"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "assafétida"
    },
    {
      "code": "rgn",
      "lang": "Romagnol",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asafëtida"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "hiṅgu",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "हिङ्गु"
    },
    {
      "code": "shn",
      "lang": "Shan",
      "roman": "síng khò",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "သိင်းၶူဝ်ႇ"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asafétida"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "dyvelsträck"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "inggo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "asapetida"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "rov",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "ров"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "peruṅkāyam",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "பெருங்காயம்"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "iṅguva",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "ఇంగువ"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "มหาหิงคุ์"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "english": "shing kun",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "ཤིང་ཀུན"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "aṅkwaṣ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "şeytantersi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "word": "hiltit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "hīṅg",
      "sense": "resinous gum from wild fennel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ہینگ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "asafoetida"
}

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